Claudius
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson